@jquick32 Geeeeez shut the hell up already and delete your damn account!!! For the love of God, act like you have a pair of testicles and move kn with your damn life. You are not the only longtime Clipper fan here that's not happy about this situation, but you're the only one crying like you just got cheated on by your wife. Get yourself together buddy!

211275

04/29/2014 - 05:02 AM PST

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Remember last year when Chris Paul demanded they hire a black head coach or he wasn't going to stay in LA? Of course not because it was quietly brushed aside. Yep, Google it. That's not racist? Oh but it's ok because it's a black guy being racist.

NUMB3RFIFTY

04/29/2014 - 05:25 AM PST

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This thread has got way out of hand and I will pay 5 rep votes to have it removed.

It's a basketball forum guys.

clipperharry

04/29/2014 - 11:29 AM PST

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I told you guys that the other owners are in fear ,the only way to get D.Sterling out is to put pressure on the rest of the owners. To do that the players need to call for a complete boycott of the playoffs and this will hit the owners and sponsorships and tv contracts in there pocket books! This action will make the other nba team owners take actions and demand Sterlings head !! It all about money period ,very sad

BACON

04/29/2014 - 12:34 PM PST

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Are there any REAL CURRENT updates to this whole situation yet? I'm so tired of speculation, false optimism, and false pessimism. Uggghhhh....

JQuick32

04/29/2014 - 12:44 PM PST

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I don't even know what to say.... this is horrible. It feels like a punch to the gut.

WinningBasket

04/29/2014 - 12:46 PM PST

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Let's wait for the actual announcement by Silver before jumping to conclusions.

ekker3

04/29/2014 - 12:47 PM PST

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from a basketball fan's perspective, its "indefinitely" fine. he won't be around and at least there's a tiny bit of closure to focus on basketball. hopefully this leads to a sale sooner than later.

BACON

04/29/2014 - 12:49 PM PST

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As expected, for all you who actually thought the NBA or anyone else could do anything to this man... I'm the first to say I told you so. DTS is NOT going anywhere. and he's taking this Clip ship to hell with him too. Sad but true...

LuckTheFakers

04/29/2014 - 12:50 PM PST

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I thought $1M was the maximum possible fine.

JQuick32

04/29/2014 - 12:50 PM PST

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**** that, the players need to refuse to play. This isn't good enough!

LuckTheFakers

04/29/2014 - 12:51 PM PST

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BURN THE WITCH

BURN HIM

Clipperfn4lf

04/29/2014 - 12:53 PM PST

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What did you expect to hear?

BennyBeFly

04/29/2014 - 12:56 PM PST

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I feel sick. It sucks to be emotionally invested in this team...but it's the reality of it. I'm feeling sick in the stomach. I feel so lost as a fan. I hope there is some good that comes out of this, today, tomorrow, or this year. I feel like I'm near the end as a Clipper fan and NBA fan.

JQuick32

04/29/2014 - 12:59 PM PST

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The punishment Simmons was talking about: lifetime ban and starting the franchise termination process (basically getting him to sell). This is a slap on the wrist and effectively the end of our franchise because he isn't going to sell on his own!

Another logical take on the fiasco. Funny that all of the outrage seems to be coming from white people.

the ONLY logical take I've heard. bomani hit the nail on the head.

LuckTheFakers

04/29/2014 - 01:11 PM PST

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JQuick32 wrote:

That's it, it's over for this franchise. Hope the chickenshit cowards at the NBA are happy.

Go root for the Spurs. They look good & their management is top notch! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

Me, I'll be at the game rooting my boys on as per usual.

CP3Best

04/29/2014 - 01:18 PM PST

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HOLY SH*T, Silver just banned Sterling from the nba FOR LIFE! anything, facilities, governing meetings, anything else he's not allowed ever to be associated with the clippers or to come to any games, and fined him 2.5 mil, and he's urging the owners the board of governors to force a sell of the team. AWESOME!

ekker3

04/29/2014 - 01:19 PM PST

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An 81 year old man got banned for life.

CP3Best

04/29/2014 - 01:21 PM PST

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That above tweet^ is not too accurate, 2.5 mil is the max on the by-laws of the nba to fine someone. Looks like Sterling will be forced to sell. And looks like the board has authority to force Sterling out if there is a 3 quarters vote. but guys GUYS, he's Banned FOR LIFE!

Clipperfan9

04/29/2014 - 01:21 PM PST

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He's out! Banned for life

CP3Best

04/29/2014 - 01:23 PM PST

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Silver just said process for selling the team will start immediately...

CapsNClips

04/29/2014 - 01:26 PM PST

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I've never in my life uncontrollably bursted into tears strictly out of joy until today.

Thank you Adam

Endless-Glory

04/29/2014 - 01:32 PM PST

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Hoping the players find relief from the news. Let's get back to basketball until after the championship.

toohipcliptoslip

04/30/2014 - 02:24 AM PST

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Look at "I have a Dream" If you've never seen it see it. If you've seen it see it again. That is where this started

toohipcliptoslip

04/30/2014 - 02:47 AM PST

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His point is well taken EXCEPT a bit of history. The invention of the tractor put southern black farmers who used mules out of work, Fortunately industries such as steel mills needed labor. They sent train cars to the south to get labor and if you sponsored a worker you got paid. A black man could in the steel mills, auto industry etc earn enough for the American Dream. Home ownership wife doesn't work etc. This was available to a black man who had no education. My uncle lived in a town where the "Colored School

" had only grades 1-10. You couldn't graduate from high school. At Chevy in my home town when automation came the assembly line dropped from seventeen to seven, read ten black workers lost jobs. When the steel industry became the rust industry black families were devastated and men became economically irrelevant. It had nothing to do with a freeway. Gary Indiana was a prosperous area but when the steel mills closed it became a war zone.

Welcome to the ghetto.

pageC4

04/30/2014 - 09:17 AM PST

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As well. I was extremely happy to hear the news, and Adam Silver not only handed out the harshest punishment, but looked like the confident leader we expected. Quite honestly I was hoping Adam Silver would be at last nights game if he was I would make it my personal mission to go down and shake his hand. On the way home I was listening to Isaac Lowechron on 980, and one caller broke down into tears....I could relate. To almost see this organization fade into the abyss once again only to be saved by Silver, what an ending. Also, congrats on the moderator position. I couldn't think of a better choice, once again David making the best decisions to make CTB a better place.

pageC4

04/30/2014 - 09:18 AM PST

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Amazing to see that he will leave this earth knowing that an empire he got started will be out of his hands, such is the price to pay. His life is a cautionary tale now

pageC4

04/30/2014 - 09:20 AM PST

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Never, after all these years of Sterling it was almost as if it was a bad reality. He was an evil we appeared to be locked in with

tense2

04/30/2014 - 10:37 AM PST

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He will get somewhere between 700-1 billion dollars (highest $ so far for an NBA sale) for his "empire" he got started. He will leave this earth a multi-billionaire who's character and integrity were always highly questionable.

He knew exactly what he was doing. No remorse.

He threw caution to floor and stepped on it. Sometimes, you reap what you sow....sometimes.

We got lucky this time as fans of the team after all this years...finally.

No tears should or shall be wasted on this guy.

FightOnRon

05/02/2014 - 04:35 PM PST

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Can't fine the old thread. Watching KCAL now and supposedly DTS has done one interview in which he said "I wish I would have just paid her off". Shi*,isn't 2 million paying her off?

He also said he would only due an in depth interview with Barbara Walters.

FightOnRon

05/02/2014 - 05:37 PM PST

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Now, Barbara Walters flew into LA today,interview time? They also eluded to him vowing never to give up his team without a fight.

How big is your billionaire ego that even though you are hated by everyone in America that has heard the story except for white supremacist groups, that you vow to say eff you to all of us. This guy needs to be bitc* slapped about 10000000 times. Let's tie him to that seat that is next to the Chick Hearn statue in front of staples and have an egg throwing contest.

toohipcliptoslip

05/04/2014 - 04:31 PM PST

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Kareem Jabaar said in an interview that more whites believe in ghosts than racism. He did some research

I have to salute my white brothers for making unbelievable strides. The Civil Rights movement started in the mid 60's and in fifty years we have come maybe 90% to being a color blind society. Yes we are not there yet BUT-. In countries such as Bosnia and Northern Ireland their peace was achieved by years of horrible violence. Ours was accomplished by non violence and our leader Martin Luther King is considered a paragon of virtue world wide. Compare this to the IRA. I am surrounded by hardcore Republicans some are Tea Party. Someone made a racist comment toward me. They were more incensed than I was. I didn't give a rat's as*. There are routinely mixed couples on TV. Sixty years ago mixed couples could be killed. It goes on and on. The support by WHITE PEOPLE was amazing.

As Americans we should all be proud.

Clipperjan

05/04/2014 - 04:57 PM PST

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I need you guys to help me. The why I understand Mr. Sterling's punishment

banned for life

2.5 million dollar fine

Selling team (by other owners)

Mrs. Sterling's was not part of the punishment.

If she owns half the team how can the NBA force her to sell her shares?

Would the NBA have to punish her to? But for want grounds?

She now is saying that she co-owns the team

I am beginning to think that the family thinks that they have found away to keep half of the team.

ClippersDA

05/04/2014 - 05:10 PM PST

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She will have to be banned too. She doesn't own the team. The league would know. Maybe because marriage made it communal in her eyes? She is a total cow.

ClippersDA

05/04/2014 - 05:16 PM PST

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Oh and the sight of Shelly being congratulated on the win made me sick. Her tone deafness is sinister. She's emerging as a villain too.

JQuick32

05/04/2014 - 06:33 PM PST

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They haven't. Under the bylaws, when DTS is banned, the team becomes property of the NBA, not Shelly.

JQuick32

05/04/2014 - 06:34 PM PST

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She IS a villain:

Clipswhit

05/04/2014 - 06:45 PM PST

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To be fair, keeping stuff in the hallway is both unsightly (thus lowering property value) and a fire hazard.

Clipperjan

05/04/2014 - 07:10 PM PST

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I understand that the NBA are in the process of taking DTS shares. But if she does own 50% (out right or by marriage) and the NBA has not ban Mrs. Sterling's how can they take her shares? Would not State law and Federal law (community property) come first over the NBA? Do not get me wrong I would like new owners but I think Mrs. Sterling's is acting like she knows something (showing up for games and talking to Coach Rivers).

ClippersDA

05/04/2014 - 07:17 PM PST

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Because she is delusional. He owns the team. Not her

JQuick32

05/04/2014 - 07:30 PM PST

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The important parts are her lying about being a government employee and her making sure to record the ethnicities of the tenants. There are also stories coming out now about her saying racist things right in minority tenants' faces. Shelly = disgusting.

Cap

05/11/2014 - 03:14 PM PST

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I'm curious, in the unlikely event the Clippers win the championship this year, does the NBA have to give Sterling a ring, or have they dissociated him from the team enough that he's not entitled to one?

ClipperKyle32

05/11/2014 - 06:59 PM PST

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Anyone see the excerpt of Anderson Cooper Interview with Donald Sterling. He sounds like he doesn't even want to fight it. He said , " If I win or If They Win, and we each....